Solstice
Scala & Kolacny Brothers
- Boys Don’t Cry
- Sweet Dreams
- All of Me
- Crash into Me
- Cloudbusting
- Fat Bottomed Girl
- Heroes
- Hungry Heart
- Survival
- Dirty Diana
- The One I Love
- Piggy
- Strong Enough
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
- Womanizer
- Follow You, Follow Me
- In The Air Tonight
- Barbie Girl
- I don’t like Mondays
- Black Hole Sun
Scala & Kolacny Brothers will celebrate the group’s 20th anniversary this summer with a new studio album called SOLSTICE. On it, the acclaimed Belgian rock choir puts its indelible sonic stamp on 20 songs by a group of artists who span genres and generations, from David Bowie and John Legend to Nine Inch Nails and Britney Spears.
Named for the longest day of the year, SOLSTICE will be available on CD and as a digital download June 17 – just four days before the actual summer solstice. Drawing in substantial live audiences around the world, including being the only choir to have headlined a stage at the Coachella Music Festival, Scala & Kolacny Brothers are also commemorating this double-decade milestone with a European tour.
Led by pianist/composer Steven Kolacny and his brother, conductor Stijn Kolacny, the group first captured the public’s imagination as rock’s dark choir with its haunting cover of Radiohead’s “Creep,” which was featured in the trailer for the film The Social Network. To date, the trailer has been viewed more than 250 million times worldwide. Similarly, the choirs’ rendition of David Bowie’s “Heroes” is currently featured in the trailer for Ang Lee's movie Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which received over 300 thousand views in one day on YouTube.
The group continues to offer up dramatic renditions of popular songs on SOLSTICE, its first studio album in five years and the follow-up to Scala & Kolacny Brothers (2011). For this new collection, the group’s powerful choral arrangements take familiar tunes to new places, like Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls,” Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams,” and the dark R.E.M. classic “The One I Love.”
With 20 songs, one for each year of the band’s journey, the album covers a great deal of musical ground and shifts genres seamlessly from the alternative rock of The Cure’s “Boys Don’t Cry,” and the pop of Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana,” to “Barbie Girl,” an international hit for the Danish electro-pop group Aqua.
Hailed by NPR as “rock’s heavenly choir,” Scala & Kolacny Brothers’ music has resonated around the world as featured music in trailers for Zero Dark Thirty and The Possession and on a diverse array of television shows including Downton Abbey, The Simpsons, Sons Of Anarchy, Homeland, Desperate Housewives, and, most recently, Gotham and Criminal Minds. Last year, the group contributed a cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to the acclaimed documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck, and also contributed a special version of the Fugees Ready Or Not, which was in included in the commercial for one of 2015’s bestselling video games, Evolve.
